Another emergency post, simply because of one (1) item that I needed to shout out about from the rooftops!!!! I am, as with last time, not going to go too in-depth with these, but here we go!
First, if you go to Lunar Distribution, you can find the catalogs for what Lunar distributes: DC, Image, Titan, and the larger catalog. If you want to find Marvel and Dark Horse and Boom! and IDW and things Lunar doesn’t distribute, you’re going to have to Google them yourself. Sorry! Let’s start with DC, because that has the one (1) item that I wanted to shout about!
DC!
There’s a Superman 2026 Annual: Year One Thousand, and the solicit text is superb: “At the end of DC K.O., Superman became King Omega with the powers of a god. But after pushing Darkseid back to the Absolute World, Superman rejected the Heart of Apokolips … and went missing.” Dang, that’s a lot. I didn’t read K.O., because why would I, but I kind of assumed the Absolute World would somehow connect with the “regular” DCU. The crossover is coming, people, like a runaway train!!!!!
I didn’t love Maw, which Jude Ellison S. Doyle wrote, but he’s doing Clayface: Celebrity Dirt, which is about Basil Karlo and sounds pretty keen. It’s drawn by Fran Galán, who’s quite good, so I’m looking forward to this.
I worry about Detective Comics 2026 Annual, because we have Batman being accused of a political assassination on a distant planet, which makes me think of Jason Aaron’s Off-World, which was a big ol’ piece of garbage. Why would anyone think Batman — BATMAN!!!! — would be on distant planets murdering people? I mean, this is only 48 pages long, and it seems Taylor would need to spend 30 pages just telling us how some alien believes Batman would do that. Anyway, Lobo and Batman blah blah blah. Nicola Scott is drawing it, so it will look very cool.
Dark Knights of Steel is back, with a second series and Heir to the Sea, which is about Dark Knights of Steel Aquaman. Fun stuff!
100 Bullets is back. Blech.
There’s a hardcover of Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham, and I’m torn. DC does this — for some of their higher-end books (the ones that aren’t just regular series), they take their damned time collecting the series, and then they take even longer getting a softcover out. This is 35 bucks, but goddamn, Rafael Grampá is awesome. Speaking of Batman, City of Madness gets a softcover — it’s not a bad comic, just a bit odd — and Killing Time also gets a softcover. Dare I buy a Tom King Batman comic? DARE I?!?!?!?
I love the solicitation for the third Rick Veitch Swamp Thing collection: “The final chapter to one of Swamp Thing’s most legendary saga collects Swamp Thing #80-87, Swamp Thing Annual #5, and Swamp Thing 1989 #1-4 (the lost Swamp Thing #88-91 issues).” Did you catch that? “Lost”? Really, DC? How about “suppressed”? That seems more accurate. Anyway, this should be nifty.
Ok, tucked away in the upper left-hand corner on page 55 of the DC catalog, we find The DC Universe by Keith Giffen. THIS is why I’m doing this post, people! Some cool stuff: Legion of Substitute Heroes Special, The Big Book of Urban Legends (a Piranha Press comic?!?!?), and some other neat stuff. Then, the final two entries: Ambush Bug #1-4, which … has this ever been collected? and HOLY SHIT THE HECKLER?!?!?!? Yes, The Heckler gets collected in this sucker, and I say IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME. Now, I don’t know where Ambush Bug Nothing Special is, but still … THE FUTHERMUCKIN’ HECKLER!!!!!!
Marvel!
I’m doing these quick and dirty, so I don’t want to post images, but what the hell is this, Kaare Andrews?
This DNX thing sounds wildly dumb. Oh well.
Predator vs. The Planet of the Apes. Yep.
Dark Horse!
There’s a Black Beetle Omnibus coming out, which is pretty keen. Why doesn’t Francavilla do more comics? Why doesn’t DC get him to do Batman ’72? WHY?!?!?!
Kristen Gudsnick’s Touched by a Demon gets collected. If Travis ever read this blog anymore, he’d probably be pretty keen on this!
IDW/Alien Books!
There’s a Zorro Remastered Edition coming out — 256 pages of glorious Alex Toth for 50 bucks, plus a story by Chaykin/Risso. Oh yeah!
Dynamite!
Kelly Thompson is writing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’s very geeked about it!
Image!
There’s a fancy hardcover of Skinbreaker for 50 bucks. I haven’t read this entire thing yet, but the first couple of issues were pretty cool, and Finch’s art is stupendous.
Starhenge is starting up again, so we get a collection of the first story, which is nice. Liam Sharp’s art is amazing on this book.
Mad Cave!
Hey, we’re getting a collection of Flash Gordon: The Movie Adaptation by Bruce Jones and Al Williamson. Man, this looks keen.
I mean, of course I’m getting The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre trade. I know this sounds like something riding on its title, but it really does look neat.
All right, there’s a lot of other cool stuff in the various catalogs, but nothing that I desperately need to tell you about. Go find stuff yourself, but be sure to get that Keith Giffen collection. It’s THE HECKLER!!!!!
